Flying Saucer Rock & Roll by Richard Blandford

Author:Richard Blandford
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911591122
Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

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And from that point on, nothing was quite the same. Jenny’s sniping at Neil entered a new phase, not just influencing her twitty friends, but trying to turn the otherwise iron will of Thomas Depper. She, and only she, had the power to do that, but the field of music was the one area in which he would take a stand against her. He said to her face that she had rubbish taste in music, and at first her impassioned opinion that the noise Neil made was, in fact, horrible seemed to fall on deaf ears. But, nevertheless, little by little, the trickle of bile that left her mouth could not help but make some impression. But I don’t want to talk about that yet. Because there’s something, one little thing actually, that happened after that practice which was beautiful, and which I’ll cherish for ever. Probably the last thing involving Neil that didn’t get corrupted and shit.

It was the May Day bank holiday. Same as every year, there was a funfair on the Fields. Jenny was going with all her little friends, including Hannah, of course. Boyfriends were obviously to be dragged along for multiple purposes – winning soft toys, holding on to on the scary rides, buying things with their hard-earned paper-round money, keeping at bay the seedy fairground workers, with their shirtless and tattooed bodies. The thing was, neither me nor Thomas were into the fair. I’d never liked it as a kid, and I certainly didn’t like it now. Townie scum in shell suits everywhere. Metallers, or metallers in grunge disguise, didn’t go to the fair. But there we were, me and Thomas, press-ganged into going. We’d stick out a mile, and probably get the shit beaten out of us behind the dodgems by some gang of thugs from Raneleigh Park.

Both of us were thinking along the same lines. Safety in numbers. We’d take as many of our friends as possible, so we weren’t too much of a target, and also in the hope that Jenny’s friends might sponge off someone other than us. We sent out a message along the grapevine that this was happening, and people should join us. Only problem was, our GCSEs were nearly upon us, and practically everybody we knew was revising like crazy, memorising packs of cards with science facts on them and whatnot. I mean, we were too, of course, but we had girlfriends, we had responsibilities, we couldn’t revise too much. It wouldn’t have been tolerated. But for the boys not blessed with a serious, heavy, committed relationship, an evening at a townie funfair wasn’t an option. Even if they wanted to, their parents had barricaded them in their bedrooms With a pile of textbooks. Ben wanted to come, because there would be girls he could fail to get off with, but he didn’t because his dad couldn’t drop him off and pick him up in the taxi that night, and he was too fucking lazy to walk. Jase said he would probably be too busy 69ing to make it, but he’d be there if he could.

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